Heating apparatus



Oct. -9 1923.

. ca. E. DIX

HEATING APPARATUS Filed Jan. 5. 1920 6; :NV NTOR.

. BY 7 v 1 I ATTORNEY.

Patented Get, 9, 19223. 7

" q 7 teases i enonen n'nIX; or De a HEATING errene rus f Application filed January 3, *ie2e-..bser ia1 irma iaaos.

, To a'll'ct'iiom it may concern useful Improvements in Heating Apparatus,

of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention pertains in general to heating systems, and has more particular-reference to one in which the circulating air is heated from a source within the room. I

Theprimary object of the present invention is to provide a simple and novel heating apparatus adapted for heating any room having a source of heat, such for example as a stove or a heat -conducting pipe. I propose to. heat the air by said source of heat and circulate such air through the room in such manner as to secure evcn'heat dis a tribution and circulation throughout the room, and to obtain this result at no extra cost except that of the simple apparatus employed.

' Another object of my invention is to provi'de a heating attachment adapted to be applied at very little cost to any stove or heater for the purpose of enabling more, thorough and economical heating of a room.

I have also aimed to provide an air heating and circulating attachment constructed. in such simple manner as to enable produc-' tion thereof as a commercial article at comparatively little cost.

-Other objects .and attendant advantages will be appreciated as the invention becomes better understood reference to the fol. 'lowingdescriptlon when considered 1n connection with the accompanying drawings, in vvhich v Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stove equipped with apparatus illustrating the use of my improvements; and

r Fig. 2, a front' view of the inlet end of the air conduit employed in said apparatus.

In the present invention, I propose to utilize heat from some source such as a stove or anyv heat conducting pipe, for thepurpose of inducing an air current and circulation within a room and for heating such air current so as to obtain greater heating etliciency than would be otherwise possible. One illustration of my improvements is its application to an ordinary stove or heater. In this instance, the heat-conducting pipe in the room to be heated, is the stove-pipe or flue outlet through which, as is well In the example mentioned, thefiue outlet 3 isprovided with anlenlarged section 4 havknowma considerable heat isibt because ofthe inefiicient fuel combustion in I I i-theeord'inary stove. I

ing an opening 5; near the lower end and an 7 opening 6 near the top. These openings are joined by a conduit 7, and a continuation 8;

of said conduit reaches to the lower portionof the room and is equipped with an inlet hood designated generallvbycharacter '9; This hood is preferably shaped so as toset I against a wall and occupybut littlespac'e' and is further shaped to provide a relatively wide"intake'jopening 10 through which air.

'maybe, drawn into the conduit 8. I prefer to employ a screenll'covering the opening;

1O forthe'purpose of obstructing dust and other foreign matter. This-screen may be that a structure of the character described is adapted to be readily attached topractically any stove or heater,thefconduit 8 and hood 7 9 being. disposed and. arranged in each instance to suit, the particular conditions. at V hand.

Byreason of the foregoing construction,

ward current through the conduit 8. i The cold air entering the intake-hood 9 from the bottom "of the room: will rise rapidly through the conduit, become heated, and be '75 removed endwise through'theopening 12 for; V

the purpose of cleaning. It'will be observed distributedlaterally'over the upper portion. of the room. Thus,.heate d air iscirculated to practically all portions'of the room, where, otherwise the air in the room is heated mainly bynradiation from the stove; In this manner, greater ei'liciencyislobtained, and" likewise economy in vfuel,'s1'nce to heat a given room to. a given'temperature with the quired.

It will be observed that the apparatus employed is exceptionally simple and may be produced at comparatively small cost and or heater.

My invention alsocontemplates arranging rent induced so as to cause acirculation such as described above,

use of my improvements, less "fuel is 'reo- 1 sold as an attachment for use withany stove 7 It is believed" that the foregoing conveys a clear understanding of the objects prefaced j above and of the principles involved; and

While I have illUstratedand described but a single Working embodimentof iny invention,

it should be understood that the same might be embodied in .various forms and arrangements without departing-from the Splrit and I [scope of the inv'ention as expressedin the lOfiPp'nd'd fciairngnn 'wbrcha,

-- I claim a I e 2 Apparatus for heating arooln comprising en'd opening into theme-m.

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in combination with a stove in ther'ooin hay ing an enlarged flue outlet-fen air Intake -hood adapted to be supported close to'the floor and having aback all and a front wall which diverge upwardly and side Walls hood and passinglengthwisethrough said enlarged flue'outletend-ha-vingQn air outlet 

